I have been running liraglutide for three weeks and the honest summary is that the effect is smaller than the internet suggests and real.
Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?
Read methods.
What is the first thing you would read if you were starting from zero?
Log dose, time and sleep. Ten seconds a day and it turns the anecdote into something you can look at.
A plausible mechanism is not an outcome, and this class is the textbook example.
Baseline first.
Three questions kill most of the confidence in a thread like this: sample size, blinding, who paid.
My rule, after years of this: if it cannot survive being written down with the numbers attached, it is marketing.
Most of the popular protocol is borrowed from a clinical population and applied to healthy people without comment. Not on liraglutide but the pattern is familiar.
What is the first thing you would read if you were starting from zero? Same for me with liraglutide, unfortunately.